Q2 Earnings Estimate for Stella-Jones Issued By Desjardins

Stella-Jones Inc. (TSE:SJ) – Research analysts at Desjardins lowered their Q2 2025 earnings per share (EPS) estimates for shares of Stella-Jones in a note issued to investors on Wednesday, May 7th. Desjardins analyst B. Poirier now expects that the company will earn $1.84 per share for the quarter, down from their previous forecast of $1.90. Desjardins has a “Buy” rating and a $94.00 price target on the stock. The consensus estimate for Stella-Jones’ current full-year earnings is $6.45 per share. Desjardins also issued estimates for Stella-Jones’ Q3 2025 earnings at $1.58 EPS, Q4 2025 earnings at $0.97 EPS and FY2026 earnings at $6.02 EPS.

Other equities analysts have also recently issued reports about the stock. Royal Bank of Canada upped their target price on shares of Stella-Jones from C$75.00 to C$76.00 and gave the company a “sector perform” rating in a research note on Thursday. TD Securities upped their price objective on shares of Stella-Jones from C$88.00 to C$90.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday. Cibc World Mkts raised Stella-Jones from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research report on Tuesday, January 14th. Scotiabank cut their price target on Stella-Jones from C$85.00 to C$79.00 in a report on Monday, March 3rd. Finally, CIBC decreased their price objective on Stella-Jones from C$86.00 to C$79.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a report on Tuesday, April 22nd. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating, four have assigned a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, Stella-Jones currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average price target of C$86.17.

Stella-Jones Stock Up 1.5 %

Shares of SJ stock opened at C$73.62 on Friday. Stella-Jones has a 12 month low of C$62.26 and a 12 month high of C$98.00. The company has a quick ratio of 1.20, a current ratio of 6.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 87.53. The firm has a market cap of C$4.12 billion, a PE ratio of 12.86, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.40 and a beta of 0.64. The stock has a 50 day moving average of C$67.25 and a 200-day moving average of C$70.65.

Insider Activity at Stella-Jones

In other news, Director James Augustus Manzi sold 1,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, April 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of C$65.79, for a total transaction of C$65,788.60. 0.14% of the stock is owned by insiders.

Stella-Jones Increases Dividend

The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, April 18th. Investors of record on Tuesday, April 1st were given a dividend of $0.31 per share. This represents a $1.24 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.68%. This is an increase from Stella-Jones’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.28. Stella-Jones’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 19.56%.

About Stella-Jones

Stella-Jones Inc produces and sells lumber and wood products. The company operates in two segments: Pressure-treated wood, which includes utility poles, railway ties, residential lumber, and industrial products; and Logs & Lumber segment comprises of the sales of logs harvested in the course of the company’s procurement process that is determined to be unsuitable for use as utility poles, it also includes the sale of excess lumber to local home-building markets.